Floor board



, J. M. JACKSON FLOOR BOARD Filed Nov. 20 D illllnl I WITNESSES INVENTOR J M M60701 ATTORNEYS llll tling.

PatentedMay 5 1925. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

JAMES Manson aaoxson, or rnnnnnsnonerwnsr VIRGINIA.

FLOOR BOAlP.

Application filed NOVEmber ZO, 1924. Serial No. 751,116."

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that L'Janrns Mlanlson JAoK= son, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pairkersburg; in the'county. of

Wood and State of l/Vest Virginia, have in vented certain new and useful Improve-1 ments Floor Boards, of which the follow ing is aspecification. j flhis' invention relates to moldings for binding the edges'of floor boards of automobiles and hasfor its object the provision Ora device for not only binding the edges to prevent objectionable noises and for maintaining the bdards against rat 'lhisinvention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, in view of the accom-. panying drawing forming a part of the specification;nevertheless it is to be under: stood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure,' being susceptible of such changes and modifications which shall delteferri'ng more particularly to the draw-' ings, 1., 2 and 3 designate the floor boards of an automobile located adjacent the front seat of an automobile which are ordinarily, bound with a metal molding and as usually constructed either have sufficient spacebe tween them to, prevent squeakingfrom fric tion but permit the boards to rattle or they are spaced suficiently close together to prevent rattling but nevertheless cause noises because of friction. in order to prevent rattling and noises from friction l have formed a ill-shaped channel member generally designated by the numeral 4- which has a side wall 5 of greater height than the other side wall 6. 'lhe lower ends of the wall are connected together by a curved member shown at 'Z'nto form a container to hold a V 7 board. floor boards but for lubricating the adjacent device applied to a plurality of predetermined quantlty of lubricant and the Width between the'lower end of the wall is less than the. dlstance between the extreme upper edge 8 of the wall (5 and the portion of the Wall 5 which is directly opp osite in other Words, the wall 6 is bent outwardly at its upper edgefrom the wall 5.; Screws or nails 9 are adapted to secure-the Wall 5 to one edge of a floor board, the other wall 6 being seated within an inclined pocket 10 formed in-the edge of an adjacent floor The device is formed of a single piece of sheefmeta l and is bent outwardly'at substantially right angles .to the' wall 5 as shown at 11 and then returned upon itself as 'at'12 with an inner flange 13be11t to wards the flange 11 and located'in substantiallythe same plane with said flange, the flange 13 being located below the topl2 and resting upon the upper surface of a floor board.

lt will also be seen that the flange 13 is spaced from the upper edge 8 of the wall 6 in order that a saturated felt strip it will contact with the portion of the edge of a till floor board in order that the edge may be lubricated to prevent noises, lit will.also be seen that-as the il-shaped member is forced between adjacent edges of pair of floor boards, the wall .6 is snapped into place within'the socket 10 of one board and till the pressure of the member 6 will maintain the boards in a] predetermined spaced relation and prevent rattling of the boards.

The member 13 provides a cover to prevent dust and other foreign matter from contaminating the lubricantin the felt strip till 14. It will also be noted that the opposite I ends of the ill-shaped member 4 are brought together and sealed in any approved manner to prevent the loss of lubricant at these points. The felt washer, by meansof capillary attraction, will raise the oil from the well formed in the til-shaped member and thoroughly lubricate the edges of the floor board to accomplish the result intended for the device.

What l claim is:

l. A bindin'gstrip for automobile floor boards compris ng an inverted ll-shaped channel member having a well adapted to be fixed to an edge of the floor board, the other wall having less height thanethe fixed wall, the-upper edge of the tired wallhaving an extension bent to form a cover for the channel member, anda felt strip in the channel member saturated with oil. I

2. A binding strip for automobiles floor boards comprising an inverted U-shaped channel member having a wall adapted to be fixed to an edge of the floor board, the other wall having less height than the fixed wall,

the upper edge of the fixed wall having an .wall, th'e upper edge of the lixed wall having an extension bent to'form a. cover for the channel member, and a felt strip in the channel member saturated with oil and projecting above the second wall for engagement with an edge of theflodr board.

4. Abinding strip for. floor boards of a vehicle comprising an inverted "Ueshaped channel member adapted to contain a lubricant, one Wall of the channel member of less height than the other wall Wherebym, 'portion ofthe edge of the floor board is exposed vto the interior of the channel member, a

felt- Strip in the channel member and adapted to supply thellubricant to an edge of a floor board where it contacts with the same.

A, binding strip for'fioor boards of a vehicle comprising an inverted ,U-shaped channel member having a wall adapted to be fixed to an edge of a 'floor board, a second wall having less height than the fixed wall, the upper edge of the fixed Wall having an. extension bent atright. angles and'adapted to beseated upon the upper surface of the floor board, an extension bent upon the flange located over the channel member to 'form a cover, the outer free end of" the cover being returned upon itself. and adaptedto engage the upper surface of an adjacent floorboard,

and a felt strip in the channel member saturated with oilz JAMES MADISON JACKSON. 

